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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words
Anglo Saxon
Auditory Processing
Towre
Syllable
2. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships
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3. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies
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4. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.
Chall's Stage 1
Social language
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Towre
5. Academic Language Therapy Association
Stanine Scores
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Open Syllable
ALTA
6. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits
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7. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Rate
Percentile
Phonics
Combination
8. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.
Standard deviation
Dyslexia
Quadrigraph
Adolf Kusmaul
9. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
Multisensory
Diphthong
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
RTI
10. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
Mathew Effect
WIATII
Combination
Grapheme
11. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U
Mathew Effect
Base Word
ALTA
Vowel
12. English as a second language
Multi-Sensory Approach
ESL
Criterion referenced tests
Chall's Stage 5
13. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT
Three Layers of Language
NICHD
Standardized test
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
14. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Morpheme
Chall's Stage 5
Affix
Open Syllable
15. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.
Funding
Accuracy
Composite Score
Texas Education Code 28.06
16. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
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17. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Chall's Stage 5
Expressive language
18. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.
Six basic types of syllables
Morpheme
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Social language
19. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
Cognition
Phonology
Composite Score
Academic Achievement Tests
20. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning
Macron
Auditory Processing
Reading Comprehension Support
Six basic types of syllables
21. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Profile
Cognitive Assessment
Morpheme
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
22. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
IEP
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Trigraph
Diagnostic tests
23. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
MSLE
Mastery level
Reliability
Chall's Stage 2
24. Open syllable
V >
Grade equivalents
Anglo Saxon
Standard Scores
25. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.
V >
Receptive language
Standard score
Open Syllable
26. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
IDEA
Visual Learners
Auditory Processing
Vowel
27. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
Percentile
Greek layer of language
Profile
Reliability
28. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
Phonics
Progress Monitoring
Analytic
Tilde
29. Individual Educational Plan
IEP
Grade equivalents
Receptive language
Modern English
30. Wide Range Achievement Test
Pre-English
Samuel T. Orton
Chall's Stage 0
WRAT
31. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Dyslexia
VV
ALTA
32. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Simultaneous teaching
Expressive language
Rate
33. Ability to understand and express spoken language
Synthetic Instruction
Oral Language
Mastery level
Modification
34. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.
Quadrigraph
Consonant Digraph
Joe Torgesen
Visual Processing
35. Final stable syllable
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36. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together
Phonics approach
Battery
Universal Screening
Direct Instruction
37. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.
Sight Words
IDEA
Pre-English
Norm-referenced tests
38. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Latin layer of language
Ability
Raw score
Funding
39. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
Orthography
Cognition
Joe Torgesen
Anglo Saxon
40. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
Rate
Old English
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Breve
41. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.
Derivative
Phonics
Synthetic Instruction
Norm-referenced tests
42. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes
Samuel T. Orton
Percentile/ percentile rank
Composite Score
Comprehension
43. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale
Visual Learners
Syntax
IMSLEC
GORT
44. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.
Morphology
Diagnostic tests
James Hinshelwood
Phonemic Awareness
45. Individuals with a Disabilities Act
ESL
IDEA
Sound Symbol Association
Great Vowel Shift
46. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.
Morpheme
Academic Achievement Tests
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Vr
47. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language
Closed Syllable
Comprehension
Modern English
Multi-Sensory Approach
48. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Breve
Orthography
Phonemic Awareness
49. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress
Grade equivalents
Battery
Texas Education Code 38.003
CTOPP
50. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn
GORT
Morpheme
Achievement test
Cedilla
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